Wagon-spring



(NoM0de1.) n M. BALTE'S.

v l WAGON SPRING. No. 382,290.` r Patented May 8. 1888.

NITED STATES MICHAEL BALTES, OF PLEASANT PRAIRIE, WISCONSIN.

WAGON- SPRING.

SPECIFICATION formng part of Letters Patent No. 382,290, dated May 8, 1888.

Application filed July 29, 1887. Serial No. 245,620.

Ta all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MI HAEL BALTES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pleasant Prairie, in the county of Kenosha and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement in lVagon -Springs, of Which the following is a speeifieation.

My invention is an improvement in carriage and wagon springs; and it consists in certain novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation showing my improved spring applied to a carriage. vation of the spring detaehed. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective view of one of the clip-arms, and Fig. 4: is a detail perspective view of the lever.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A desiguates the axle of a earriage or wagon, to which at proper distanees apart are secured the clip arins B, by means of the clips or U- shaped bolts C. These clip-arms project upward from the axle, and in their upper ends I secure a bolt or rod, D, which extends between the same, and around Which the spring E is eoiled. One of the clip-arms B is provided With a notch, F, in which one end of the spring E is secured, and at its end this clip arm is provided with the inwardly-projecting cap or flange, G, which fits around or over the spring, so as to prevent its uncoiling to such an extent as to draw the end from the notch F.

Hdesignates a lever provided with a notched offset, I, which fits around the bolt D, and thereby fulcruns the lever on the same. The lower end of this lever is provided with the lugs J, between Which the end of the spring is inserted, and the extremity of this end of the spring is made hookshaped or bent around one of the said lugs to prevent withdrawal; In its upper end the lever is provided with an opening, K, in which one end of a rod, L, is secured, the other end of the rod being secured to the seat. A short distance below this opening K the lever is provided with an opening, M, for the attachment of the floor of the earriage.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the entire earriage or wagon body is supported by the springs, and the weight of the same taken off the axles, thus relieving the horse as well as the driver of thejar caused by irregularities in the road bed. Should a spring break, the carriage-body will Fig. 2 is a front ele-` (No model.)

not be precipitated to the ground, but its deseentwill be limited by the lever,which will rotate only until it is stopped by the axle. Two springs are provided for each axle, one near each end, and the carriagebod y is supported between them, as shown.

The device is cheap, simple, and effieient, and broken parts can be easily replaced.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The combination of the wagon-axles, the springs nounted thereon, the levers connected to the springs, the wagon-body secured to the levers, the seat, and the rods L, Connecting the seat with the lcvers, substantially as specified.

2. The conbination, with the axle, of the clip-arms, the spring eoiled around the said rod and having one end connected to one of the clip-arms, the lever having a notched offset, I, engaging the rod D, and having one end of the spring secured to its lower end, and the Wagon-body and seat having independent connections With the lever, as set forth.

3. The eoinbination of the axle, the cliparms secured thereto, one of said clip-arms being provided with the notch F, and the inwardly-projecting cap or fiange G, the rod D, secured between the clip arms, the spring eoiled around the rod D, and having one end fitted in the notch F, and the lever fulerumed on the rod D and adapted to be secured to the wagon-body and seat, and having one end of the spring secured to its lower end, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination of the axle, the eliparms secured thereto, the rod D, secured between said clip arms, the lever fulcrumed on said rod and provided with the lugs J at its lower end, the spring eoiled around the rod D, and having one end secured to one of the clip-arms and its other end fitted between and secured to the lugs J of the lever, and the wagon-body and seat having independent connections with the lever, substantially as set forth.

In testimony thatI claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signatureinpres ence of two witnesses.

MICHAEL BALTES.

Witnesses:

NICKOLAS BALTES, Orro MIcHELsoN.

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